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Best holiday baking recipes

Holiday baking must be easy and the recipes must be tried and tested family favourites.

This top 10 baking recipes from our food bloggers, tick all boxes. Click through to the blogs for more inspiration!

1. Christmas cookies

Aromatic cookies for Santa. Add lots of silver balls and colourful icing!

2. Condensed milk biscuits
The perfect holiday biscuit recipe: a robust, crisp biscuit that travels well, without being reduced to crumbs.

3. Cornbread muffins

A tupperware full of these muffins fill up hungry beach tummies. Also great with a braai.

4. Mince pie squares
A quicker, but equally delicious alternative to fruity mince pies.

5. Triple chocolate brownies

This tried-tested recipe surely produce the best brownies around. The perfect gift!

6. Marmite muffins
Pack these for padkos or picnic. Or serve them fresh and warm with soft cheese for breakfast.

7. Gingerbread biscuits
Dust these gingerbread stars with icing sugar for a beautiful finish.

8. Easy cherry tartlets
You just need some cherries and phyllo pastry for these little treats.

9. Fool-proof chocolate pockets
Ready-rolled puff pastry make these so easy that the kids can almost do it themselves!

10. Wheat-free vanilla cookies
These tasty maize flour biscuits are also gluten-free.